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Mercurius
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Hello all. I've been around here for awhile, just decided to get more involved recently.
I just started working on multi-part series featuring a female protagonist. I try to make my stories realistic, with a good amount of character development, so I'm wondering if anyone thinks it is a limitation that I am, in fact, not even remotely female. Do you feel that a guy can't write convincingly from a female point of view? Or is it not really an issue?
I find that I really only notice this when a lesbian story is involved, and then only when I feel the story wasn't very good or the characters weren't very well written. That's when I check to see if the author is a she or a he, and when it's a man, I nod knowingly. "Ah yes, he tried to write a convincing story about lesbians and failed because of his penis."
But truth be told, there have probably been dozens that were quite good, so I never even noticed that they were written by men. And now that I think about it, there were quite a few of those not-so-well-written ones that were ostensibly written by chicks.
I actually thought about creating a separate nom de plume and submitting this series under a female name, which leads me to my final point - since we don't really have any way of knowing if the authors are who they say they are, does it even matter at all?
I just started working on multi-part series featuring a female protagonist. I try to make my stories realistic, with a good amount of character development, so I'm wondering if anyone thinks it is a limitation that I am, in fact, not even remotely female. Do you feel that a guy can't write convincingly from a female point of view? Or is it not really an issue?
I find that I really only notice this when a lesbian story is involved, and then only when I feel the story wasn't very good or the characters weren't very well written. That's when I check to see if the author is a she or a he, and when it's a man, I nod knowingly. "Ah yes, he tried to write a convincing story about lesbians and failed because of his penis."
But truth be told, there have probably been dozens that were quite good, so I never even noticed that they were written by men. And now that I think about it, there were quite a few of those not-so-well-written ones that were ostensibly written by chicks.
I actually thought about creating a separate nom de plume and submitting this series under a female name, which leads me to my final point - since we don't really have any way of knowing if the authors are who they say they are, does it even matter at all?
